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PAPER PAIL.

No. 454,799. ,Patented June 23, 189,1.

W/TNESSES:

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

UZAL HULL AND IVILLIAM W. MCEWAN, OF BELVIDERE, NEW JERSEY, ASSIGNORS TOTHE NEIY YORK VOOD FIBRE COMPANY, OE SAME PLACE.

PAPER P'AIL..

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 454,799, dated June 23,1891. Application led September 29,1890. Serial No. 366,543. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that we, UZAL HULL and WIL- LIAM W. MCEWAN, citizens of theUnited States, and residents of Belvidere, in the county of IVarren andState of New Jersey, have invented certain new and useful Improvementsin Paper Pails; and we do declare the following to be a full, clear, andexact description of the invention, such as will enable others skilledin the art to which it appertains to make and use the same, referencebeing had to the accompanying drawings, and to letters of referencemarked thereon, which form a part of this specification.

Figure l of the drawings is a vertical seotion of the pail andpress-base with the follower. Fig. 2 is an enlarged section of pail andpress-base, partly broken.

This invention has relation to paper pails; and it consists in the novelconstruction and combination of parts, all as hereinafter set forth.

In the accompanying drawings, the letter A designates the conical sidewall of apail, and B the bottom of said pail. The conical side wall A isusually formed by winding a film of paper-pulp upon a conical roller andafterward trimming its edges. The bottom disk B is formed by pressurefrom paper-pulp and is made of considerable thickness, usually an inch,at the edge C, said edge having a bevel upward and outward correspondingto the slope of the side wall,.within thelower portion of which saidbottom disk is designed to be placed. This bottom disk is madehard bydrying and pressure and is usually waterproofed by oil saturation beforeit is placed in position.

D represents a press-base having a conical recess E, the side wall ofwhich is of similar slope with that of the side wall of the pail to beformed.

is then operated to depress the follower F,

forcing the bottom piece down iiush with the lower margin of the body A.The bottom bcing of hard character, seats itself in the side wall A, sothat it is held irmlybelow because of the slope of said side wall andabove by the slight shoulder G, formed around the interior of the sidewall by the inseating of the bevel edge of the bottom in the softermaterial of the side wall. As the side wall shrinks in drying, thisinseating of the bottom becomes more pronounced, and it is therefore inthis manner designed to be securelylocked in position, so that it cannotmove up or down. After the bottom piece has been set as hereinbeforedescribed the entire pail is finished by waterproofing and varnishing.

Having described this invention, what we claim, and desire to secure byLetters Patent, is-

rlhe paper pail having the frusto-conical body portion and the dried andhardened beveled-edge bottom portion inseated in one end of said bodyportion by the shrinkage of the said body portion and held in positionby its slope and by the shoulder formed by said inseating,substantiallyas specified.

In testimony whereof we affix onrsignatures in presence of twowitnesses.

UZAL HULL. IVILLIAM IV. MCEWAN.

XV i tnesses ISRAEL HARRIS, MADIsEN RAIsLEY.

